[decasia]

I for one would appreciate anyone who has expert biological knowledge commenting on this.

I don't entirely dismiss this article since I have a friend who worked with prions in a bio lab at the Univ. of Chicago and I remember he was absolutely terrified of them. (And IIRC he reported having some doubts about laboratory safety protocols...) But I don't think he was afraid of this kind of apocalyptic endgame either; he just thought they were horrendously nasty stuff.

[balozi]

The limited research there is on prions is heavily concentrated on the nasties. Its like learning about bacteria by studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis and coming to the conclusion that bacteria = death.